http://www.vmunix.com/mark/FreeBSD/ZIP-FAQ.html And AFAIK the Zip drive is supported as an SCSI device under Windows too. This is not a tweak or some lazyness from Linux programmers :P En réponse à Fred K Ollinger <follinge@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>: > > > There are a couple of these in progress (parallel ports). > > > I would have to see what Thomas is doing (I haven't looked) to see > > > how well the drives (Zip, etc) could/would work with this. > > Ok, let me know. If I understand correctly, the Zip // driver emulates > SCSI > > through the // port. This way we should just use a standard scsi > driver to > > Which one? I thought that this was just in linux. I am guessing that > the > windows driver does not do this. IMHO, the scsi emulation is just there > to > save the zip driver writer work, and isn't necessarily necessary under > beos. Please correct me if this is wrong. > > > control it if we forward the scsi commands from the scsi bus manager > to > > the // > > port. > > Do it if it will save work, and you feel the need to do that. In linux > it > always felt like a lazy kludge to me. (I like linux, but I can be > honest > about it's [few] shortcomings. :) ) > > Are you planning on just porting the linux driver over? > > Keep up the good work. I'm impressed. > > Fred > > >